Program | Decoupled Days 2025

Sessions

Decoupled Days believes in an inclusive conference and speaker lineup. We particularly encourage members of underrepresented groups, such as women, people of color, LGBTQ, trans and GNC folx, disabled people, veterans, neuroatypical people, and economically disadvantaged people, to submit proposals. Our 2025 call for papers is now closed.

Decoupled Days 2025 has a goal of devoting at least 50% of all accepted sessions to speakers of underrepresented groups and 10% of all accepted sessions to first-time speakers.

Speakers

Our full slate of speakers is now announced!

Matt Dorman: Matt Dorman is the co-founder of Ndevr, a technology services agency specializing in high-scale digital platforms. With over 20 years of experience, he has built and optimized websites for major brands like Time Inc., Johnson & Johnson, and Fox News, bridging the gap between technical execution and business strategy. A lifelong digital innovator, Matt started coding the moment he got an internet connection in 1995—and hasn’t stopped since. Now based in Colorado, he enjoys camping and tackling the ever-evolving challenges of digital media.
Matteo Frana: Matteo Frana is a seasoned developer and entrepreneur with over 25 years of experience in web development. His journey began at age 10 when he started programming in GW-BASIC on an IBM 8088. By 17, in 1996, he had started his career as a web developer. As the founder of React Bricks, he is dedicated to transforming content management through a headless CMS with inline visual editing, bridging the gap between developers, content editors, and, most recently, AI.
Josh Koenig, Co-Founder & SVP Marketing, Pantheon: Josh has 25 years of experience building the internet, as hands-on practitioner, technical architect, and market facing strategist. He currently leads marketing at Pantheon, the WebOps platform with the best in CMS that's ready for what's next. Pantheon is used by over 10,000 professional web teams powering 100s of thousands of sites/experiences that collectively reach over a billion monthly unique visitors. He is passionate about making websites "just work" for teams, and for the open web as a channel to deliver meaningful results for businesses and mission-driven organizations.
Andrew Kumar: Andrew is a global leader of high-performing and diverse technology teams, with a 20-year track record in technology, marketing, commerce and content. These days, Andrew spends a lot of his focus on Integrations, APIs, AI, and he is instrumental in supporting technology platforms, agencies, and integration partners, bringing a wealth of expertise and experience scar tissue to the table.
Sabina Leybold: Sabina Leybold is a content strategist and user experience designer who has worked with clients across finance, healthcare, technology, education, manufacturing, and more. She focuses on the balance of modern user needs and enterprise business goals to create experiences that are practical, scalable, and accessible to all. When she isn’t elbow-deep in a massive sitemap or furrowing her brow at a complex content model, she loves reading, running, and traveling.
Lehel Matyus: Lehel Matyus is the founder of Fireboost.io, a platform that empowers WordPress site owners with scalable, cloud-based solutions. Prior to launching Fireboost.io, Lehel spent over a decade at a leading web agency in Los Angeles, where he built high-performance websites for nonprofits, universities, museums, and government agencies. This experience honed his expertise in crafting tailored, enterprise-grade solutions. Today, through Fireboost.io, he helps businesses and developers scale their WordPress platforms and prepare for the future of web technology.
Randy Oest: Randy Oest is a multidisciplinary designer and fractional Creative Director offering UX strategy, visual design, content design, and design systems expertise to organizations that want to make meaningful digital change. With years of experience leading creative teams and aligning cross-functional stakeholders, Randy helps teams work smarter—not harder—by facilitating workshops, improving workflows, and building scalable design systems. His approach balances creative vision with practical execution, making him a trusted partner for product, marketing, and leadership teams alike.
Jyoti Singh: Jyoti Singh is an experienced Drupal Developer and Architect with a deep-rooted passion for the Drupal community. Over the years, she has actively contributed to Drupal modules, participated in issue queues, and supported local and global Drupal events as a speaker. Committed to the open-source ethos, believes in knowledge-sharing and community-driven innovation.
Ryan Smith: 20 years ago Ryan thought it'd be cool to build an Adobe Flash website powered by WordPress as a Content Management System. Fast forward a few years, several iterations, multiple immersive experiences and a Steve Jobs platform-killing letter later, the notion of a headless CMS stuck with him, and here we are. A Jamaican-born, Russian-speaking, Orlando-residing, cat-loving, Chelsea-supporting Full Stack Developer specializing in PHP and React web application development, Ryan continues to explore the endless possibilities of a decoupled world, most recently having contributed to various projects in the investment guidance and portfolio ops space.
Sibu Stephen: Sibu Stephen is a seasoned web developer and UX enthusiast with over 7+ years of experience crafting engaging, accessible digital experiences. Specializing in front-end development and CMS platforms like Drupal, WordPress, Squarespace, HubSpot, delivered solutions for energy-as-a-Service, SaaS, and product-based companies like Acquia. Currently working as a Consultant in Edmonton, Canada, Sibu is passionate about sharing knowledge—whether through tech talks, blog posts, or open-source contributions—and advocates for inclusive, decoupled architectures around Drupal.
Gabe Sullice: Gabe is co-founder and CTO of Applura, where he’s building a platform for deploying and managing decoupled web apps with a focus on high-performance delivery and developer experience. With over a decade of engineering experience, he specializes in HTTP-based systems, resource optimization, and backend architecture, working primarily in Go, PHP, and JavaScript. A long-time contributor to the open web, Gabe helped shape the JSON:API specification, maintained related subsystems in Drupal core, and co-led Drupal’s API-first initiative. He’s passionate about bringing joy and clarity back to building for the web—by leaning into decoupling done right.